Scène III

44 20 — Mais tu n'as pas voulu: But you would not

believe me. "Me croire," or. some v vèrb expressing a similar idea, is evidently understood nere»

NOTES. Si

Tagi 45 Une 13 — Je les rappelle toutes : The reflective form is the one generally used — "Je me les rappelle toutes": I remember them ail. Mark ''je me rappelle cela," and "je me souviens de cela." 45 18 — Est-ce un malheur si grand que de cesser de vivre :

Utque adeone mori miterum est ?

Virgil, iEn. xiL, 646.

Remark the idiomatic use of que ; the sentence would be correct without it also.

45 28 — L'un ni l'autre : Littré blâmes grammarians for having made the rule that ni must be repeated : ' ni Vun ni Vautre. He quotes examples of one

ni only in poetry, and suggests that this might be imitated in prose. To ourselves, however, it seems that such omission can only be by a poetical licence.

45 33— C'en est fait : No hope is left, i.e. 9 If you kill

yourself you will certainly be thought guilty.

46 22 — D'un prix à qui tout cède : Valued above ail

things. " Qui, in the genitive, dative, and abla~ tive {i.e., governed by a préposition), can be employedwith référence to persans only." This rule, made by Vaugelas (1585-1650), has been re-

Eeated by ail the grammarians who succeeded im ; but if grammarians are unanimous in proclaiming it, our great writers hâve been the same in breaking it " (Marty-Laveaux).

46 29— Commettre : To expose to danger.